I do feel like a fraud a lot of the time because I've never been interested in people who say 'I'm a writer', 'I'm an artist'. Too much is made of the role and not enough of the work. We are such a celebrity-driven age and a status-driven age, that the status becomes more important than the actual work.
Richard FlanaganLove is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.
Richard FlanaganThe enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.
Richard FlanaganYou have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.
Richard Flanagan